abstract：:Psychiatric and neurologic disorders are associated with deficits in the postconflict recruitment of cognitive control. The primary aim of this study was to validate the relationship between cognitive functioning and indices of conflict adaptation. Event-related potentials were obtained from 89 healthy individuals who...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Clayson PE,Larson MJ

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related potentials were used to examine the preparation of hand and foot responses in tasks using both limb systems. As in tasks using only one system, opposite lateralized readiness potentials were observed for hand and foot responses (Experiment 1). Furthermore, movement-related activity at Cz was more positiv...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Miller J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether frontal alpha electroencephalographic (EEG) asymmetry moderates the association between stressful life events and depressive symptoms in children at familial risk for depression. Participants included 135 children ages 6 to 13, whose mothers had either a history of depression or no history ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Lopez-Duran NL,Nusslock R,George C,Kovacs M

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information is stored in distributed cortical networks, but it is unclear how distributed stores are synthesized into a unified percept. Activation of local circuits in the gamma range (30 < < 80 Hz), and distributed stores in the low theta range (3-5 Hz) may underlie perceptual binding. Words have a crucial role in s...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Salisbury DF,Taylor G

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present ERP study investigated individual differences in the integration of verbal descriptions and visual object representations. Participants saw pictures of objects (e.g., a swimming duck) after listening to noun phrases describing the same object in the identical state, a shape-mismatching state ("flying duck"...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Hirschfeld G,Feldker K,Zwitserlood P

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews research on age-related changes in working memory and attention control. This work is interpreted within a framework labeled "GOLDEN aging" (growing of lifelong differences explains normal aging), which is based on the idea that normal aging (as opposed to pathological aging) represents maturational...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Fabiani M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arterial baroreflex system (BRS) consists of at least three closed-loop control systems: the heart rate (HR), vascular tone (VT), and stroke volume (SV) BRSs. Whereas HR-BRS gain is well studied, VT-BRS and SV-BRS gain are not. This study aimed to develop a method for quantifying VT-BRS and SV-BRS gain using an es...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Vaschillo EG,Vaschillo B,Buckman JF,Pandina RJ,Bates ME

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of force production on medial-frontal negativity (MFN), reflecting the activity of an internal action-monitoring system, were investigated in a force-production task. A precue indicated a low or high force before a stimulus signaled the execution of the same or opposite force. An incorrectly exerted force ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Armbrecht AS,Gibbons H,Stahl J

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The integrated effect of the cholesterol and CYP46 genotypes on the risk of cognitive decline needs to be determined. Using the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument (CASI), 145 mentally healthy middle-aged and older adults were recruited to investigate the influence of cholesterol and CYP46 genotypes on cognitive ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Lai CL,Hsu CY,Liou LM,Hsieh HY,Hsieh YH,Liu CK

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paced 0.1 Hz breathing causes high-amplitude HR oscillation, triggering resonance in the cardiovascular system (CVS). This oscillation is considered to be a primary therapeutic factor in HRV biofeedback treatments. This study examined whether rhythmical skeletal muscle tension (RSMT) can also cause 0.1 Hz resonance in...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Vaschillo EG,Vaschillo B,Pandina RJ,Bates ME

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using unfamiliar and meaningless pictographs that varied in their degree of similarity to Chinese characters, the current study tested whether the early electrophysiological response was modulated by character likeness. We measured P100 and N170 while 20 native Chinese speakers were viewing Chinese characters, drawing...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Zhang M,Jiang T,Mei L,Yang H,Chen C,Xue G,Dong Q

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study defensive mobilization elicited by the exposure to interoceptive arousal sensations, we exposed highly anxiety sensitive students to a symptom provocation task. Symptom reports, autonomic arousal, and the startle eyeblink response were monitored during guided hyperventilation and a recovery period in 26 highl...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Melzig CA,Holtz K,Michalowski JM,Hamm AO

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two experiments examined the hypothesis that dual systems of stimulus evaluation for categorization can be observed in event-related potentials: one whose duration is indexed by the latency of the P3 component, and a second evident in a later frontal potential. Subjects categorized artificial animals by a "two out of ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Folstein JR,van Petten C

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the influence of direction of attention on the early detection of visual novelty, as indexed by the anterior N2. The anterior N2 was measured in young subjects (n=32) under an attend and an ignore condition. Subjects were presented standard, target/rare, and perceptually novel visual stimuli un...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Tarbi EC,Sun X,Holcomb PJ,Daffner KR

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selecting the adequate alternative in choice situations may involve an inhibition process. Here we assessed response implementation during the reaction time of a between-hand choice task with single- or paired-pulse (3 or 15 ms interstimulus intervals [ISIs]) transcranial magnetic stimulation of the motor cortex. The ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Tandonnet C,Garry MI,Summers JJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined, using the Concealed Information paradigm, whether interstimulus intervals (ISI) typically used for electrodermal measurement can be shortened. An ISI ranging from 16 s to 24 s (with a mean of 20 s) was compared with an ISI shortened by 50% using a within-participants design. It was demonstrated th...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Breska A,Maoz K,Ben-Shakhar G

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied brain activity during the displacement of attention in a modified visuo-spatial orienting paradigm. Using a behaviorally relevant no-shift condition as a control, we asked whether ipsi- or contralateral parietal alpha band activity is specifically related to covert shifts of attention. Cue-related event-rel...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Cosmelli D,López V,Lachaux JP,López-Calderón J,Renault B,Martinerie J,Aboitiz F

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The postauricular reflex is a relatively new psychophysiological measure of appetitive emotional processing during picture viewing. However, the degree to which other auricular (i.e., superior and anterior auricular) muscles might exhibit reflexive activity congruent with that found in the postauricular muscle has not...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Benning SD

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sleep disruption is an important aspect of major depressive disorder but lacks an objective and inexpensive means of assessment. We evaluated the utility of electrocardiogram (ECG)-based cardiopulmonary coupling analysis to quantify physiologic sleep stability in patients with major depression. Relative to controls, u...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Yang AC,Yang CH,Hong CJ,Tsai SJ,Kuo CH,Peng CK,Mietus JE,Goldberger AL,Thomas RJ

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many psychophysiologists have noted the striking similarities between the antecedent conditions for the P3 component of the event-related potential and the orienting response: both are typically elicited by salient, unexpected, novel, task-relevant, and other motivationally significant stimuli. Although the close coup...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Nieuwenhuis S,De Geus EJ,Aston-Jones G

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the time course of effects of working memory (WM) load on interference control, ERPs were measured in a combined WM and Stroop task. A WM load of 0, 2, or 4 letters was imposed, and during the maintenance-interval Stroop trials were presented that required participants to classify names of famous people whi...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Jongen EM,Jonkman LM

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were measured when 24 Chinese subjects performed the classical Stroop task. All of subjects had experienced the great Sichuan earthquake (5/12), with 12 people in each of the Far (Chengdu city) and the Close (Deyang city) earthquake experience groups. The behavioral data showed th...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Qiu J,Su Y,Li H,Wei D,Tu S,Zhang Q

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, a rare probe or frequent irrelevant stimulus (S1) appeared in the first part of the trial, followed by either a target or nontarget (S2) in the second. Subjects randomly pressed one of five buttons to S1 to signal seeing it. Then they pressed one of two buttons for nontargets or targets. We tested three groups: ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Rosenfeld JP,Labkovsky E

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was conducted to explore the relationship between emotion recognition and affective Theory of Mind (ToM). Forty subjects performed a facial emotion recognition and an emotional intention recognition task (affective ToM) in an event-related fMRI study. Conjunction analysis revealed overlapping activation dur...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Mier D,Lis S,Neuthe K,Sauer C,Esslinger C,Gallhofer B,Kirsch P

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Masking of the first target in the attentional blink (AB) paradigm increases the magnitude of the AB relative to when the first target is not masked. We examined the underlying causes of this effect in an experiment in which a single target was presented in a rapid visual serial presentation stream. The P3 to the targ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Brisson B,Robitaille N,Deland-Bélanger A,Spalek TM,Di Lollo V,Jolicoeur P

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Target selection can be based on spatial or dimensional/featural mechanisms operating in a location-independent manner. We investigated whether dimension-based attention affects processing in early visual stages. Subjects searched for a singleton target among an 8-item array, with the search display preceded by an ide...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Gramann K,Töllner T,Müller HJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) show an increased error-related negativity (ERN), yet previous studies have not controlled for medication use, which may be important given evidence linking performance monitoring to neurotransmitter systems targeted by treatment, such as serotonin. In an examination o...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Stern ER,Liu Y,Gehring WJ,Lister JJ,Yin G,Zhang J,Fitzgerald KD,Himle JA,Abelson JL,Taylor SF

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been suggested that anxious individuals are more prone to feel that negative outcomes are particularly extreme and to interpret ambiguous outcomes as negative compared to nonanxious individuals. Previous studies have demonstrated that the feedback negativity (FN) component of event-related brain potential (ERP)...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Gu R,Huang YX,Luo YJ

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:According to the dual-mechanisms of cognitive control framework (DMC), older adults rely predominantly on reactive as opposed to proactive control. As a result, we expected elevated response conflict for older relative to younger adults with increasing task difficulty. Response-locked ERP activity was examined separat...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Czernochowski D,Nessler D,Friedman D

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients often report symptom flare (SF) for >24 h after moderate exercise (post-ex). We hypothesized that SF is linked to increases in circulating cytokines and CD40 Ligand (CD40L). In 19 CFS patients and 17 controls, mental and physical fatigue and pain symptom ratings were obtained to...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： White AT,Light AR,Hughen RW,Bateman L,Martins TB,Hill HR,Light KC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we assessed blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), stroke volume (SV), cardiac output (CO), and total peripheral resistance (TPR) in response to 13 picture series in 37 participants in order to investigate their hemodynamic response associated with activation of the appetitive and defensive motivational s...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Gomez P,Danuser B

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emotion influences the perception of respiratory sensations, although the specific mechanism underlying this modulation is not yet clear. We examined the impact of viewing pleasant, neutral, and unpleasant affective pictures on the respiratory-related evoked potential (RREP) elicited by a short inspiratory occlusion i...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Von Leupoldt A,Vovk A,Bradley MM,Keil A,Lang PJ,Davenport PW

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Locations of surface electromyography (sEMG) electrodes in the face are usually chosen on a macro-anatomical basis. In this study we describe optimal placement of bipolar electrodes based on a novel method and present results for lower facial muscles. We performed high-density sEMG recordings in 13 healthy participant...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Lapatki BG,Oostenveld R,Van Dijk JP,Jonas IE,Zwarts MJ,Stegeman DF

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the relationship between autonomic cardiovascular reactivity and cardiac awareness during the following conditions: baseline, emotional picture viewing, mental stress, and heartbeat tracking. Cardiac parameters were examined by using power spectrum analysis of heart rate variability and impedan...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Herbert BM,Pollatos O,Flor H,Enck P,Schandry R

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Considerable progress has been made in our understanding of the remarkable fidelity with which the human auditory brainstem represents key acoustic features of the speech signal. The brainstem response to speech can be assessed noninvasively by examining scalp-recorded evoked potentials. Morphologically, two main comp...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Chandrasekaran B,Kraus N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lateralized readiness potential (LRP) is a component of average event-related potentials that has proven very useful in the study of hand-specific motor preparation. We developed a model of single-trial LRP waveforms that produces realistic average waveforms for both stimulus-locked and response-locked averaging. ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Stahl J,Gibbons H,Miller J

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The affect-modulated acoustic startle response (ASR) might be a promising indicator for emotional reactivity as an endophenotype (an intermediate level between genetics and phenotypes), which we expected to be associated with the DRD4 polymorphism. Therefore, the affect-modulated ASR was examined in 114 healthy volunt...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Pauli P,Conzelmann A,Mucha RF,Weyers P,Baehne CG,Fallgatter AJ,Jacob CP,Lesch KP

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Paced breathing has been criticized for its presumed influences on autonomic and respiratory regulation, among that on respiratory resistance. It has been speculated that excessive pulmonary stretch receptor activation through high tidal volume (V(T)) would be the mechanism underlying such influences. However, the ide...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Ritz T,Dahme B

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared early stages of face processing in young and older participants as indexed by ERPs elicited by faces and non-face stimuli presented in upright and inverted orientations. The P1 and N170 components were larger in older than in young participants. However, the early distinction between stimulus categories as...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Gao L,Xu J,Zhang B,Zhao L,Harel A,Bentin S

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed the validity of the Eston-Parfitt (E-P) curvilinear Ratings of Perceived Exertion (RPE) Scale and a novel marble quantity task to provide estimates of perceived exertion during cycle ergometry. Fifteen children aged 7-8 years performed a discontinuous incremental graded-exercise test, and reported ...

journal_title：Psychophysiology

authors： Eston RG,Lambrick DM,Rowlands AV

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00